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TDL126 In Defence Of The Unambitious

https://larrygmaguire.com/the-unambitious – I had a distinct lack of ambition when I was a teenager. Apart from playing football, I had no stand-out desire that I can remember. There was no “I want to be this” occupying my mind. I was just doing whatever came to me and wasn’t getting too hung up on results. Like all kids, I had talent in particular areas, but nothing felt missing so much that I was driven to pursue it. I didn’t feel an emotional vacuum that needed to be filled (however, that would change). I say vacuum because, if we were truthful, we’d admit we form our ambition through the idea that something is missing or that we need to gain approval. Or perhaps in our inability to see it, we are therefore not in a position to admit it. Maybe in admitting it, there is the fear we’ll lose our drive to succeed and in that we cease to exist. This powerful state of mind can set us up for many difficulties given that we put ourselves in a place of less than what we should be from the st
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I'm Larry G. Maguire, writer and artist from Dublin, Ireland. I write content for the web and I create photorealistic art. I also have a deep interest in the nature of human existence, where we come from, what we are doing here and where we are going. I write on subjects such as society, politics, culture, religion, philosophy and psychology. I never write for the sake of controversy, however, my stuff can be opinionated. some of it you'll like, some of it you won't, but I promise it will make you think.